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Module 6 Ecological Principles UNIVERSITY OF THE ARCTIC Module 6 Ecological Principles Developed by Bill Heal, Visiting Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Durham Key Terms and Concepts Following are the key principles that you will encounter in this module. They are applicable to both terrestrial and aquatic systems. Biomes, communities, and ecosystems. How do we define systems? Similar climate, topography, and geology interact to generate similar vegetation and fauna in different parts of the Arctic. Within these major biomes, distinct plant communities form the basis of dynamic ecosystems. Biodiversity. The number of species tends to be low in the Arctic because the ecosystems are young and the environment is severe. This allows important genetic variation within species, and different ecosystems add to biodiversity. Adaptation and selection. The flora and fauna use many physical, physiological, reproductive, and behavioural strategies to survive. Population dynamics and control. The numbers of plants and animals vary greatly over time. Climate can have positive or negative effects on numbers, but it acts independent of the population size. Other factors, such as predation, are density dependent. Productivity, nutrient cycling, and food webs. Plant production through photosynthesis supports food chains and webs. At each step, energy is lost in respiration as well as converted to new biomass. This is consumed by the next trophic level or passes into decomposition. Each step has distinct transfer efficiencies that determine redistribution of C and nutrients. Succession. How do communities change? As glaciers melt or new surfaces are exposed on ocean floors, primary succession begins with plant growth. Accumulation and recycling of nutrients encourage ecosystem development. Disturbance through storms or freeze-thaw activity promotes secondary succession. Resource utilization, management, and sustainability. We exploit natural resources directly (e.g., hunting, fishing) or indirectly through land and water Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies 311 1 UNIVERSITY OF THE ARCTIC management and indirectly through pollution and habitat disruption. The Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response model provides a comprehensive general framework for analysis of human impacts. Learning Objectives This module you should help you to 1. be aware that, like the physical sciences, ecology has principles or rules that help us to understand the structure and function of ecological systems in the Arctic. 2. recognize these key challenges in Arctic ecology: – identifying the hierarchy of scales in space and time – recognizing environmental gradients – understanding interactions and feedback effects 3. understand how the main ecological principles listed under Key Terms and Concepts apply to the terrestrial and aquatic systems in the Arctic. Reading Assignments AMAP (1997), Arctic Pollution Issues: A State of the Environment Report. CAFF (2001), Arctic Flora and Fauna: Status and Conservation. Overview There are many different ways to consider the tundra, its lakes and rivers, the coast, the seas, and the ocean. You can describe them in your own way, but it is important to remember that there are general scientific rules or principles that apply to ecological systems and that help you to explore them systematically. In this module, a series of basic principles are outlined as a framework for the contents of other modules. Three practical approaches are widely applicable: (1) Always consider how patterns or processes change as they move up or down the scales in space and time, from local to regional to global or from minutes to years to decades. (2) Environmental conditions change along small or large gradients, from the air, through the vegetation and into the soil, or up 2 Land and Environment I UNIVERSITY OF THE ARCTIC mountains. (3) Interactions and feedback are a normal part of ecology. Changes in one part of the system affect other parts, often causing a chain of effects, with positive or negative feedback to the original part. Lecture Introduction The northern landscapes and seascapes have been carved by ice, snow, and water acting on the underlying geology. These landscapes and seascapes, within the severe climate, provide the environment within which the flora and fauna of the Arctic survive and thrive. It is also the environment in which people interact with the natural resources. It is the physical environment, plus the biota and people, that combine to generate the distinctive Arctic habitats and ecosystems that range from polar deserts to boreal forests, from streams and lakes to great rivers, and from the rich continental shelf to the productive oceans. These systems and the participating organisms are still evolving because the region is very young in geological and evolutionary time scales. It is only a few thousand years since the last ice age ended; the climate is continually changing and other factors (globalization) are increasingly important. We have a good understanding of the ecology of the present Arctic flora and fauna and some knowledge of past changes, but there is increasing concern over future sustainability and an increasing recognition of the complex interactions within the systems. Therefore, we need to use all our knowledge, including application of principles of ecology, to improve our understanding of both current and future changes. The general principles also provide an essential framework to help us organize the wealth of information and ideas concerning Arctic ecology and its future that will be presented in Modules 7 to 13. Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies 311 3 UNIVERSITY OF THE ARCTIC Source: Chapin et al. (2002) Fig. 6.1 A hierarchy of ecosystems ranging in size by 10 orders of magnitude and examples of questions to be addressed. Global (4 x 107 m in circumference); Watershed (1 x 105 m in length); Forest (1 x 103 m in diameter); Endolithic (Arctic internal rock surface) ecosystem (1 x 10-3 m in height). Three basic features should be recognized when considering any species, sites, processes, or systems, particularly in the Arctic. These are hierarchy of scales, environmental gradients, and interactions and feedback effects. 4 Land and Environment I UNIVERSITY OF THE ARCTIC Hierarchy of Scales Most ecological information is based on studies in a small area—often a few metres or hectares—and over a short time, often with repeated observations over a few years. The challenge is how to apply this information to larger areas and longer times. Upscaling or extrapolating in space is difficult but can be done by stratified sampling or survey, and by use of different tools, for example, remote sensing. Alternatively, ecological studies can begin at large scales and work downwards (see fig. 6.1). Whichever approach is used, it is critical to understand the physical as well as the ecological changes that occur at different spatial scales. The same principle applies when considering time scale: Will the trends observed over a few years show gradual continuation, or are there thresholds that give a large change after a long time? Or are changes cyclical? In order to discover, understand, and predict trends over decades, centuries, or millennia, information is accumulated from a wide variety of sources, for example, historical documents and analyses of sediments and ice cores. Environmental Gradients A particularly important feature of Arctic ecology is the influence of environmental gradients. The climatic regime has a strong influence on Arctic species and systems and the microclimate that is so important in ecology is strongly influenced by both small and large changes in the shape or topography of the land or sea. At a large scale, ecological changes are often expressed in relation to latitude or altitude. These are convenient surrogate measures that represent the temperature, moisture, and wind and radiation regimes that actually affect the terrestrial ecology and represent continuous changes in environmental factors; that is, they are gradients. Similarly, the distance from the sea represents an oceanic-continental gradient on land, while the water depth is a key variable in freshwater and marine environments reflecting temperature, salinity, light, and, often, nutrient concentration. Within the Arctic, micro-scale gradients are of particular importance. For example, although the climate is usually defined in standard meteorological observations, it is not that which is experienced by the vegetation, small animals, and soil organisms on land. The temperature and moisture regimes change dramatically at the leaf surface, within the vegetation, and within the soil profile. The microclimatic regimes also change over short lateral distances as a result of small topographic variations caused by the cover of ice and snow, or by stones and rocks. Thus, ideas of “the length of the season” have to be adjusted for particular groups of organisms, for particular topography, and for different types of soil. Once again, the same principle applies within aquatic systems, in which the physical location related to topography and orientation influences the water temperature, light, and current, with the added influence of ice. However, as always, the physical environment shows a series of gradients, sometimes with Bachelor of Circumpolar Studies 311 5 UNIVERSITY OF THE ARCTIC a distinct step function. The more extreme the overall climatic conditions, the more the flora and fauna exploit these gradients and steps, often in subtle ways. Interactions
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